About the day » Sunday May 22, 1949Calender converter

• Laurel Denise Rinehart, Seneca, Newton, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Reijer Kleijer, Putten († 2006)
• Maria Lucia Jacinta Hendriks, Veldhoven (Zeelst), Nederland († 2011)
• Maria Claudia Sibylla Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 2016)
• Marc Roels, Willebroek († 2019)
• Johanna van Dam († 1998)
• Johannes Florentius Cornelius Hendriks, Veldhoven (Zeelst), Nederland († 2016)
• Geertruida Maria van Elteren, Utrecht († 2001)
• Maria Claudia Sibylla van Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, San Francisco, Condado San Francisco († 2016)
• Antonio Maria Nemecheck, Aruba († 2004)

• Bertha Mildred Adams Alvarez Crona (81), Escambia, Florida, United States
• Bernard Bruil (53), Varsseveld
• Benoni Vanderhaeghen (49), Zwartberg Genk
• Anna Catharina Hermans (76), Hilvarenbeek
• Anna Kooi (77), Groningen (zkh), Groningen, Nederland
• Anna BERGERS (70), Tholen
• Bernardina Elisabeth Hulhoven (72), Anzegem, België
• Bertus Vrolijk (72), Krimpen aan de IJssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Huijs (53), Helden
• Adrianus Theodorus van Ruiten (64), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1946 » Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
• 1946 » George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager († 2005)
• 1946 » Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1946 » Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
• 1946 » Michael Green, English physicist and academic
• 1948 » Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter
• 1948 » Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver
• 1949 » Cheryl Campbell, English actress
• 1949 » Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat
• 1950 » Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet

• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Petrus
11. Peter
12. Dirk
13. Jacob
14. Jacobus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Marianne

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
• January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• January 11 » The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
• April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
• June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

The temperature on May 22, 1949 was between 2.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.